What we use
- Primary documents: the Constitution, statutes, the National Archives, presidential libraries, the Congressional Record, official military and NASA histories, census and agency records.
- First-hand experience: Marines, teachers, shop floors, naturalization courts, county life — including Michael Gist’s public service.
- Grokipedia as a working encyclopedia, then checked against the primary record. We do not stop at a secondary desk.
What we refuse as authority
- Socialist or communist party organs as authority.
- Activist rewrite shops whose first job is to indict the country.
- A worldview that treats the founding as original sin and the rest as a footnote.
A fact can appear in a hostile source and still be true if it lives in the primary record. Internment is in Public Law 100-383. That is the United States naming its own wrong — not a party line.
Realism starts with people as they are. A sovereign nation can err and correct. That is why the primary record matters more than a narrative shop. If a date, a statute, or a casualty count is wrong, write us — the archive will be corrected against the document, not against a party line.